蔡美儿说自己并不想刻画孩子的未来。

And Chua says she doesn't want to script her children's futures.

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“并不是说她没有自己的观点，只是说她仅仅是在写一本对往事的回忆录而已，并不是给家长们的指导手册，”阿里克西斯·肯坦特说，她说自己和蔡美儿已经是20年的老朋友了。

“Not that she’s without opinion, but she’s writing a memoir, not a parenting guide, ” said Alexis Contant, who describes Ms. Chua as her closest friend for 20 years.

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我可以很肯定地说，我们没有像蔡美儿所描述的那样去抚养我们的两个孩子，有的时候，我倒觉得我们的方式显得过于自由。

I can comfortably say that none of our two kids were raised like the ways Amy Chua has described, sometimes, I would think that our ways seem too liberal.

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蔡美儿：“比如说，她们不准在外过夜，不准参加聚会、看电视、玩儿电子游戏、参加校园演出，任何一科的成绩不能低于A。”

AMY CHUA: "Attend a sleepover, have a play date, watch TV or play computer games, be in a school play, get any grade less than an A."

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蔡美儿：“比如说，她们不准在外过夜，不准参加聚会、看电视、玩儿电子游戏、参加校园演出，任何一科的成绩不能低于A。”

AMY CHUA: "Attend a sleepover, have a play date, watch TV or play computer games, be in a school play, get any grade less than an A."

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